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Okay, So You'd Like to Write a Screenplay - A Book Review
Do you have the next best big blockbuster screenplay sitting inside your head waiting for you to put onto paper? Well, the longer you wait the less you have to show for it. While it is true that 99% of their screenplays never get made into movies, and I’m sure it’s much higher than that actually. In fact, there are something like 40 to 50,000 screenplays written every year, and we know there are very many movies made.
So, if you’d like to write a screenplay you better make it good. And perhaps you need to start with a little preparation to get all your thoughts down. There is a very good book I’d like to recommend that could help you with creating a screen play. It is a book that is in my personal writing library, and one that I occasionally look at, the name of the book is;
“The Screenplay; the Writing before the Writing” by Jeremy Robinson and Tom Mongovan, 2003.
The author suggests that to write a good screenplay you need to have a lot of the work done ahead of time. Of course, the obvious things this authors suggest have to do with the type of genre, location, budget of the movie, markets, and moviegoers which all make sense from a business standpoint. But they also suggest setting up character worksheets, and this book has sample forms for you to use along with developing character relationships and who is related to do and how..
The authors further suggest that the plot structure and the movements of the characters are ultra-important and they give you tips and techniques to figuring out all these things, and also some worksheets you can use to help you. The last worksheets they have in the book are for the scenes so that you set everything up properly. The reality is you can write a screenplay, but it will be no value to the industry without all these other things figured out in advance. In fact, if you don’t consider these things, your script will really be undoable to make into a movie.
